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Azerbaijan’s atonement of a convicted
murderer who killed an Armenian army officer with an ax risks
reigniting a 20-year-old fight between a dual foes in a energy-
rich South Caucasus.

Ramil Safarov, who was portion a life judgment for slaying
Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest in 2004, was pardoned by Azeri
President Ilham Aliyev and promoted after Hungary transferred
him home Aug. 31. Armenia’s council will reason an emergency
session today, while Europe, a U.S. and Russia have expressed
“deep concern” about informal stability.

Energy-exporter Azerbaijan fought Armenia over a Nagorno-
Karabakh enclave after a 1991 Soviet breakup, withdrawal tens of
thousands passed and some-more than 1 million displaced. While border
skirmishes given a 1994 stop glow haven’t triggered renewed
conflict, Safarov being respected threatens a standing quo. The
territory stays a intensity peep indicate in a segment that
borders Iran and Turkey and endured a 2008 Russia-Georgia war.

Azerbaijan’s atonement of a convicted
murderer who killed an Armenian army officer with an ax risks
reigniting a 20-year-old fight between a dual foes in a energy-
rich South Caucasus.

Ramil Safarov, who was portion a life judgment for slaying
Gurgen Margaryan in Budapest in 2004, was pardoned by Azeri
President Ilham Aliyev and promoted after Hungary transferred
him home Aug. 31. Armenia’s council will reason an emergency
session today, while Europe, a U.S. and Russia have expressed
“deep concern” about informal stability.

Energy-exporter Azerbaijan fought Armenia over a Nagorno-
Karabakh enclave after a 1991 Soviet breakup, withdrawal tens of
thousands passed and some-more than 1 million displaced. While border
skirmishes given a 1994 stop glow haven’t triggered renewed
conflict, Safarov being respected threatens a standing quo. The
territory stays a intensity peep indicate in a segment that
borders Iran and Turkey and endured a 2008 Russia-Georgia war.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev faces flourishing general critique for pardoning an Azerbaijani army officer who was condemned to life in jail for a 2004 ax murder of an Armenian troops officer.

Ramil Safarov was condemned in 2006 by a Budapest justice after admissing to a murder of Armenian Army Lieutenant Gurgen Margarian while a dual were attending a denunciation march orderly by NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.

Margarian was killed in his dormitory room in Budapest while he was sleeping. A postmortem hearing after resolved that Safarov crushed Margarian’s face with an ax 16 times, scarcely disjunction his conduct from his body.

Hungarian military pronounced Margarian was also stabbed several times in a chest.

Hungary says it returned Safarov to Azerbaijan on Aug 31 after receiving assurances from Baku his jail judgment would be enforced.

But Aliyev released a presidential atonement for Safarov on his attainment in Baku.

YEREVAN. – An online-petition perfectionist a Hungarian Government to apologize for carrying expelled a murderer, condemned for life in jail, who was expelled to Azerbaijan appears in Internet, Nouvelles d’Arménie reports.

“Safarov will not offer his punishment tenure in Azerbaijan. Moreover, a killer was met in Baku as a inhabitant hero. It is scornful probity and a memory of a murdered Armenian major Gurgen Margaryan and contingency prompt everybody to pointer a petition addressed to a Hungarian Government,” a petition author stated.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported progressing that Ramil Safarov, a major of a Azerbaijani army, was extradited on Friday from Hungary, where he was portion a life judgment – and with no countenance of possibly bewail or distress – for a intentional mattock murder of Armenian major Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace module in Budapest behind in 2004.

The Foreign Ministry pronounced in a matter that a “Libyan people, who triumphed in their series over restraint and dictatorship, can usually mount by a oppressed (Syrian) people … who are fighting for their freedom.”

Libya joins a U.S. and a flourishing series of Arab and European countries who have reduced their tactful ties with a Syrian regime.

Libya’s new leaders took over after insurgent army overthrew longtime tyrant Moammar Gadhafi in an eight-month polite fight final year, The Associated Press reported.

Returning to a awaiting first lifted after final year’s squadron affair, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has broached ancillary approval by a US Senate of a Armenian genocide as partial of a tactful descent opposite Turkey, a Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sept. 9. The news came forward of a assembly of a assembly of Foreign Ministry officials to plead Israel’s response to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s preference to hillside Ankara’s tactful ties with a Jewish state. Amazingly, a news also claimed Lieberman had suggested that Israel behind a PKK Kurdish guerillas (which will presumably fuel a unconstrained conspiracy theories in Turkish jingoist circles that a Kurds are a pawns of a Zionist swindling opposite a Muslim world). (AFP, Sept. 10; YNet, Sept. 9)

Showdown during UN looms
The White House is duration gripping adult a pressure

PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkey’s preference to downscale tactful ties and postpone invulnerability agreements with Israel was a good deliberate step, according to a Turkologist.

As Ruben Melkonyan told a news discussion in Yerevan, Turkey realizes repercussions of a step, taken in hopes of reaping some benefits. “By downscaling ties with Israel, Turkey hopes to boost a participation in a Islamic world,” a consultant said.

In a wire expelled by a alarm ventilator web site WikiLeaks on Sept. 1, Oskanian restated his concerns about a destiny of Armenian-Turkish truce during his assembly with US Ambassador to Armenia, Marie Yovanovitch on Febr. 10 final year. US envoy and Oskanian met to plead a stream state of Armenia-Turkey relations, prospects for resolution of protocols on normalization of family and investiture of tactful ties, and efforts to solve a Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

The wire pronounced Oskanian criticized a demeanour in that Sarksyan has rubbed a whole settlement routine and that in his view, a boss “put a transport before a horse.” Oskanian did not know because Sarksyan began a routine with Turkey so publicly, and how confused he was for a disastrous open reaction.

According to Oskanian, before to embarking on normalization with Turkey, a Armenian supervision had a request for elucidate a Nagorno Karabakh dispute — a Madrid Principles

Speaking during a corner news discussion with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Erdoğan pronounced Sarksyan’s remarks did not befit a politician and called them a “historical mistake” that should be corrected.

When asked by a tyro during a novel competition rite if Armenians will be means to get behind their “western territories” along with Mt. Ararat, Sarksyan said, “This is a charge of your generation.”

Armenians insert good chronological and informative significance to Mt. Ararat on a eastern limit of modern-day Turkey, around where Armenians are believed to have initial adopted Christianity as an central sacrament in 301 A.D.

Sarksyan pronounced his era had over a charge by “getting back” Karabakh, a partial of what he called “our motherland.” Nagorno-Karabakh is an Azerbaijani domain that is now underneath Armenian occupation.

Leaders of both countries have met dozens of times to find a allotment to a decades-long dispute though have unsuccessful to secure a assent agreement.